Sentences with word «signifier»

But they don't make me weak in the knees and I don't think they're some kind of signifier of true car geekiness — everyone knows that's FWD diesel hot hatches, anyway.

Phonological awareness is the knowledge that spoken words are patterns of sounds as well as signifiers of meaning.

On its own, a Polaroid image is fully identified with the artwork that ultimately grew out of it; the face depicted becomes a kind of signifier for larger cultural concepts of beauty, power, and worth.

Such a statement is meaningless, however, unless the question of why those materials became signifiers for an entire generation is considered.

«We believe human conflict has much of the same visual signifiers as nature and the cosmos,» they explain.

Her MA thesis focuses on the emancipation of «Chineseness» and cultural signifiers in contemporary Chinese ink painting from 2000 - 2015, with emphasis on two Vancouver - based exhibitions, «Jiangnan» (1998) and «Unscrolled» (2014).

Probing his personal and familial histories in an attempt to carve out a cultural identity for himself, Vietnamese - born Lê mixes cultural signifiers with abstraction and popular culture to create new work that can be seen as either pure abstraction, identity - based art or both.

Rashaad's videos, performances, sculptures, and photographs interrogate notions of cultural / social signifiers as well as how they are formed.

Bruce McDonald's film smoothtalks its way disorientingly through otherwise overfamiliar zombie tropes, confining its disaster - and - siege plot to a snowbound radio station in rural Canada, and reducing the apocalypse to a semiological breakdown in which the violent severing of signifier from signified becomes all at once linguistic virus and cure.

Her dense collages of empty chairs, colorful birds, lone tables, and other signifiers for artistic production are embedded in fields of white that soften with the levity of the artist's native Los Angeles.

As New York dealers compete to sell works to buyers in ascendant art markets like China, Turkey, and the Middle East, a relationship with the estates of revered figures like de Kooning is an important signifier of status.

This is something altogether different from the unintegrated pairing of styles favored by artists like David Salle or Sigmar Polke, which tend to result in the uneasy feeling that all attempts to draw meaningful relationships between signifiers in the modern world are doomed to failure.

To this end, my project approaches musical talent as a floating signifier with a range of meanings that depend upon the discursive context and the speaker's agenda.

Where they once spun enveloping hood verite, here they just list gangsta signifiers without building a world from them.

Nuclear power has become an obsession for the institute, a kind of signifier by which players in the environmental debate are allocated to the «good guys» box or the «bad guys» box.

Through re-contextualization, he endows adopted elements of cultural ephemera with a political charge, attempting to transform a battery of neutral art materials into signifiers of dissent.

The lack of clothing and other contemporary signifiers along with the archetypical landscapes give the photos a sense of timelessness in which the viewer can project his or her own story.

However, I would more suggest that this day and age all religions have become representatives of Master Signifiers.

In doing so, words no longer performed as linguistic signifiers in a conventional sense but were instead imbibed with form and a self - referential status that opened up a more fluid space for interpretation.

In her two - dimensional paper construction paintings Christine Morla explores cultural signifiers through her use of Filipino packaging, giving new meaning to what had formerly been considered trash.

I understand both points of view in that we are both not necessarily progressing in terms of points (which is a better signifier then position at times) and that we have improved significantly on the pitch.

We're told, for example, that Robert Raphael's ceramic boxes use «the material of porcelain as a subtly powerful signifier of gender,» and that Miya Ando makes patinated gradients on steel because she descended from Japanese swordsmiths.

Pink and blue arrived, along with other pastels, as colors for babies in the mid-19th century, yet the two colors were not promoted as gender signifiers until just before World War I — and even then, it took time for popular culture to sort things out.

For my money The Post is the biggest waste of potential of the year and the new ultimate signifier of how much Spielberg has fallen as an artist.

However, unlike most of the recent outpourings of pious Hollywood films, Captive is based on a real - life event and is dependent upon its religious signifiers in order to comprehend its characters» abrupt enlightened transformations.

His forms, generic signifiers of humanness, are constricted by urban life, decimated by poverty, destroyed by war, and trapped by global capitalism.

Grabner came of age as a painter during the 1980s, an era of questioning and appropriation, but her use of tablecloths, bed linens and blankets was less about signifiers, a considerable corner of discourse in that era, and more about the impulse to copy.

In so doing, Rashaad challenges established ideas of cultural ownership, and illustrates an acutely contemporary understanding of the way socially specific signifiers convey meaning.

Using tower forms as key signifiers of place and identity, Scenic Overlook activates the two - story gallery space with four large - scale wooden sculptures that borrow signature architectural features from the four highest observation towers in the world: Tokyo Skytree, Canton Tower, CN Tower and Ostankino Tower.

Through the shuffling of physical properties that construct our use of language (matter, shape, sound), Kanarek's work examines how verbal signifiers operate emotionally.

Geometric abstraction is present among many cultures throughout history both as decorative motifs and as spiritual signifiers themselves.

The biggest signifier of success though is that we have already carried out further collaborative activities — several sports fixtures and a geography workshop — and have sought to broaden this to other subjects and year groups in our schools.

Marlene Steyn's work takes shape in the unsettling of established ideas surrounding themes of psychoanalytic theory, historical narratives of art and popular signifiers borrowed from contemporary culture.

In the rapidly changing and gentrifying neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Martinez finds connections between the precarious foundations of home for families targeted by immigration policies and speculative real estate markets, and the physical signifiers of forced displacement and exclusion such as «gentrification fences» and border walls.

Though the backs of playing cards are meant to be neutral — empty signifiers whose meaning is filled in by the value on the front of the card — Tyson found that elements of society often leaked onto the imagery of card backs, situating them in a specific place and time by default, even when there was no intention for the original image to provide a window into a cultural moment.

Through various painting techniques and a neon palette, Williams drapes each figure with mixed identities that mask traditional signifiers of purpose and patriarchy in order to construct a new and sympathetic masculine mythology.

Mobilizing the colorful excess Claflin encounters in her Chinatown studio surroundings, by mixing handmade and readymade objects, she invites the viewer to grasp onto certain signifiers within a disorienting context.

These were honors on their own but also signifiers that Ramsay's reputation had recovered from her well - publicized exit from the Natalie Portman film «Jane's Got a Gun.»

This is one of the most common signifiers of a controlling relationship, yet it's often the easiest to overlook.

In The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour reduces politically loaded signifiers to a battle of the cliques.

Wang uses this colour as an emotional signifier within the works — as with the artist's evocative «Coffin Paintings» employing the very physical process of layering paint; a reference to the artist's home province, Fujian, where elderly men add a fresh layer of lacquer to their coffins in anticipation of their death, once a year.

While painted in a traditional style reminiscent of Rembrandt and Titian, Kuo's works deviate from this history through his choice of imagery, combining signifiers of American culture with elements appropriated from film and photography.

Just because you can not always pick them out of a crowd by looking for obvious signifiers like swastika armbands doesn't mean they don't still exist, stoking hatred on the Internet and terrorizing anyone who they deem less human than them.